image: This global digital map of Iapetus was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 641 meters (2,103 feet ...

They use data from the Cassini mission and photogrammetric techniques to map Iapetian ... the surface of Iapetus. According to Singer and colleagues' measurements, typical height–length ratios ...

This map of the surface of Saturn’s moon Iapetus (1,436 kilometers, or 892 miles across), generated from images taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned ...

But on Iapetus, the pieces of ice move 20 to 30 times as far as their falling height. Flash heating could be providing that extra push. Faster and farther Flash heating occurs when material falls ...

The strangest feature on Iapetus is the equatorial ridge. What could possibly create a feature like this? To paraphrase the British geneticist J.B.S Haldane, "in my suspicion, the Universe is not ...

The resulting two-colored treat would resemble one of Saturn’s weirder moons, Iapetus — an icy world with a coal-black face and a bright white backside. For centuries astronomers have puzzled ...

How Saturn's moon Iapetus got its ridge Date: December 13, 2010 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's ...

“We see landslides everywhere in the solar system,” said Kelsi Singer from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, “but Saturn’s icy moon Iapetus ... from such heights, the ice ...

This global digital map of Iapetus was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 641 meters (2,103 feet ...